EDUCATING RITA Significant experiences in people’s lives provide opportunities for growth and development. Going ‘into the world’ means moving from familiar experiences to new horizons. When going from familiar experiences to new ones‚ obstacles are usually overcome before being totally successful. Individuals might be given advice and/or guided through the transformation to reaching new horizons. Great rewards and opportunities also come about while going through the process of growth and development
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Educating Rita Educating Rita By Armstrong Chikava Educating Rita written Willy Russel is a great play with a good dialogue. The play focuses on only two characters‚ Rita and her teacher Frank. Personally I like Rita’s personality even though I couldn’t really relate to her at all. Rita is portrayed as a working class woman but she wants to change herself and her class‚ it appears that she isn’t satisfied with who she is. During the play‚ she tries to break away from her social
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Educating Rita Discuss the ways in which an individual’s knowledge‚ values and beliefs develop as they travel into a new world. Transition is the process or period in which someone undergoes a change and passes from one stage to another. Within this time the individual is exposed to new experiences that allow them to grow in maturity and develop a broader understanding of themselves and others. However an individual’s past experiences may also challenge their existing knowledge‚ values and beliefs
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into a new world can me emotional‚ physical or mentally and can be a personal change or be promoted by a mentor. In “Educating Rita” by Willy Russell‚ Frank promotes Rita to venture into his world of education in order for her for achieve the freedom and choice she desires‚ however Frank can also be a barrier for Rita at times. This change is not an easy change and comes at a cost. From early on in the play Willy Russell depicts the difference in class through the contrast of Rita and Frank. Rita’s
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Explore the way Rita is presented in the play ‘Educating Rita’ At the beginning of the play Rita decides to sign up for Open University course. She is bored with her job as a hairdresser and is in an unhappy marriage. Rita feels held back by her local community and believes that the only way to improve her life is through education. To begin with Rita believes that she needs to know “everything”. She tells Frank‚ her only tutor‚ that she does not visit the theatre or opera because she does not
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Scene I: Close up of Frank in his office in Australia (The lights come up on Frank seated in the swivel chair at the desk and he smiles as he opens his video message) G’day Rita‚I ‘m Frank. Time has gone by so quickly and I have been in Australia for one year already. I have missed you so much. How have you been? Thank you for your encouragement. Now I am continuing to write poems using the pen you gave to me. I believe that I need to respect myself and live up to your expectations. I work at
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• “It’s not their fault; they can’t help it. But sometimes I hate them. God‚ what’s it like to be free?” • “Frank: Do you know Yeats? Rita: The wine lodge? Frank: Yeats the poet. Rita: No” • “They come to the hairdreser’s cos they wanna be changed. But if you want to change y’ have to do it from the inside‚ don’t y? Know like I’m doin’.” • “I’m not‚ y’ know‚ confident like‚ but I wanna be‚ honest.” • “I think you’re marvellous. Do you know‚ I think you’re the first breath of
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How does the opening scene of ‘Educating Rita’ prepare the audience for the rest of the play? Willy Russell; the author of educating Rita was born in Whinston which is just outside Liverpool. When he was at five years old he moved to Knowsley. He went to a school just down the road from his Grandmas grocer. He took gardening up as a hobby and played football regularly. At eleven years old he went to a secondary school in Huyton. Then a year later he moved to Rainford School‚ when he was there
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Into the World – Educating Rita • Educating Rita 1991 Director by Willy Russell • EDUCATION = CHOICE • Explores of a variety of texts that deal with aspects of growing up and transitioning into new phases of an individual’s life. ( Growth and change occurs CONTRAST: • Male/ Female • Educated class/ Working Class • Disillusioned/ Cynical/ Enthusiastic • Elite “Howards End” E.M. Forster/ Mass culture “Ruby Fruit Jungle” Rita Mae Brown CONFLICT:
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"Educating Rita" Director: Lewis Gilbert Screenwriter: Willy Russell Released: 1983 With Julie Walters‚ Michael Caine‚ and others Rita (Julie Walters) is a twenty-six years old hairdresser from Liverpool who has decided to get an education. Not the sort of education that would get her just a better job or more pay‚ but an education that would open up for her a whole new world--a liberal education. Rita wants to be a different person‚ and live an altogether different sort of life than she has
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